From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org)
	by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60)
	(envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-123795-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>)
	id 1QTEsz-0002df-K9
	for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 05 Jun 2011 15:05:05 +0000
Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1])
	by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9E6F31C032
	for <garchives@archives.gentoo.org>; Sun,  5 Jun 2011 15:05:04 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183])
	by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6E9B1C014
	for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sun,  5 Jun 2011 14:43:06 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])
	by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8D7F2AC01A
	for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sun,  5 Jun 2011 14:43:05 +0000 (UTC)
X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org
X-Spam-Score: -4.869
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.869 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=1.730,
	BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-4]
Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1])
	by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024)
	with ESMTP id WsCfou7AXYFF for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>;
	Sun,  5 Jun 2011 14:42:59 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12])
	by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 349141B4005
	for <gentoo-user@gentoo.org>; Sun,  5 Jun 2011 14:42:58 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69)
	(envelope-from <lnx-gentoo-user@m.gmane.org>)
	id 1QTEXW-0002O8-0C
	for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 05 Jun 2011 16:42:54 +0200
Received: from athedsl-372088.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.5.118])
        by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian))
        id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00
        for <gentoo-user@gentoo.org>; Sun, 05 Jun 2011 16:42:53 +0200
Received: from realnc by athedsl-372088.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian))
        id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00
        for <gentoo-user@gentoo.org>; Sun, 05 Jun 2011 16:42:53 +0200
X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Why are *.so library files executable?
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:43:01 +0300
Organization: Lucas Barks
Message-ID: <isg4l2$4f0$1@dough.gmane.org>
Precedence: bulk
List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org>
List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org>
X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org
X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-372088.home.otenet.gr
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110524 Thunderbird/3.1.10
X-Archives-Salt: 
X-Archives-Hash: c46443934ab72bab779fe846796e0359

Gentoo users tend to be technically adept, so I'll ask the question here:

Why are *.so files set as executables?  I noticed that they keep working 
if I do a "chmod a-x" on them.